Anyone like instrumental live versions of Celine's hits?

[MillerThorsten]

Hi guys - I've been listening to instrumentals for my favorite celine dion songs and some artists for 3 days straight now and as I was reflecting on each of the songs, a thought came into my mind. I was wondering, how many of celine dion fans there are who would love to have a album of instrumental live versions of songs that are being used every time celine goes live.

 

Just came into mind, if there are a huge demand on this, is there a way for us to have a some sort of a petition to celine's management on releasing an album such a this and some considerations that they need to consider:

 

* the songs will be recorded using Mego Lemay's arrangements

* no background vocals of celine's back-up singers, just pure instruments (I simply hate backing vocals hehehe)

* and it'll be released on a 2-3 CD album, with the following songs (these are songs my preferred songs):

 

tell me what you think, you're reactions would be great...

 

01 Incognito

02 On Traverse Un Mirroir

03 D'abord, C'est Quoi L'amour

04 (If There Was) Any Other Way

05 Where Does My Heart Beat Now

06 Unison

07 Des Mots Qui Sonnent

08 Le Blues Du Businessman

09 Un Garçon Pas Comme Les Autres (Ziggy)

10 L'amour Existe Encore

11 Love Can Move Mountains

12 If You Asked Me To

13 Beauty And The Beast

14 Water From The Moon

15 The Power Of Love

16 Misled

17 Think Twice

18 Only One Road

19 Calling You

20 Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore

21 Le Ballet

22 Regarde-Moi

23 Je Sais Pas

24 Cherche Encore

25 Destin

26 Les Dérnier Seront Les Prèmiers

27 J'irai Où Tu Iras

28 Prière Païenne

29 It's All Coming Back To Me Now

30 Because You Loved Me

31 Seduces Me

32 All By Myself

33 Declaration Of Love

34 River Deep, Mountain High

35 To Love You More

36 The Reason

37 Immortality

38 Treat Her Like A Lady

39 Tell Him

40 Miles To Go (Before I Sleep)

41 Us

42 My Heart Will Go On

43 Let's Talk About Love

44 Je Crois Toi

45 Zora Sourit

46 On Ne Change Pas

47 Terre

48 Dans Un Autre Monde

49 S'il Suffisait D'aimer

50 The Prayer

51 I'm Your Angel

52 That's The Way It Is

53 The First Time Every I Saw Your Face

54 All The Way

55 Live (For The One I Love)

56 The Power Of The Dream

57 I'm Alive (2002 Version)

58 I'm Alive (Taking Chances World Tour Version)

59 Have You Ever Been In Love

60 A New Day Has Come (Radio Edit)

61 Ten Days

62 I Surrender

63 Aun Existe Amor

64 The Greatest Reward

65 A New Has Come (Album Version)

66 Nature Boy

67 I Drove All Night

68 One Heart

69 Tout L'or Des Hommes

70 Je T'aimes Encore

71 Je Lui D'irai

72 Contre Nature

73 Miracle

74 If I Could

75 What A Wonderful World

76 In Some Small Way

77 Je Ne Vous Oublie Pas

78 Tous Les Secrets

79 Sous Les Vent

80 I Believe In You

81 Et S'il N'en Restait Qu'une (Je Serais Celle-Là)

82 Immensité

83 A Cause

84 Je Cherche L'ombre

85 Le Temps Qui Compte

86 Taking Chances

87 Alone

88 Eyes On Me

89 My Love

90 Shadow Of Love

91 A World To Believe In

92 A Song For You

93 Fade Away

94 That's Just The Woman In Me

[Timster]

I would love to see this. I have an even better idea - Celine's team should create a website with all studio and live instrumentals available to download (including the shortened arrangements that have been used over the years). If they charged to download these tracks, they would make a huge profit as this requires much less effort than releasing a CD set, and they can add things to it over time.

[MTJ]

I agree with Tim. That would be smart for Team Celine to do. However, most of the instrumental tracks that are released - either in Celine's singles or by Karaoke-Version, are sufficient to make me happy.

 

I prefer the tracks with back-up vocals.

[Alex_Incognito]

I don't think the average music buying public would have any interest in this.

[I Love You]

I agree with Tim, that would be fantastic if Team Celine did that. I love instrumental, and Karioke, versions of Celine's songs.

[Tyler1991]

This wouldn't sell at all.....sure, it's interesting to us, but idea-wise , it would receive even less backing than usual from her team, and the public wouldn't care enough.

[kevincheung410]

yes. We're all happy to see if Celine's team would like to make it.

[whosarahre]

this is sometinhs that only hard core celine fans such as ourselves will enjoy. i would love it but it would be a failure to mainstream it.

[MillerThorsten]

I would love to see this. I have an even better idea - Celine's team should create a website with all studio and live instrumentals available to download (including the shortened arrangements that have been used over the years). If they charged to download these tracks, they would make a huge profit as this requires much less effort than releasing a CD set, and they can add things to it over time.

 

 

yeah, i agree on this too, this would be fantastic however, we also need to consider those fans who has no option of purchasing the tracks online. those people who doesn't have credit card and to those people who lives in the 3rd world countries wherein having a bank account is not a necessary unlike in the 1st world countries especially the united states wherein you need to have your own bank account. so, releasing this on a CD will give an opportunity for other fans to have a copy.

[MillerThorsten]

This wouldn't sell at all.....sure, it's interesting to us, but idea-wise , it would receive even less backing than usual from her team, and the public wouldn't care enough.

 

you definitely got good point there tyler oh well, guess now it wouldn't sell that much after all and people wouldn't care because it's not a Celine Dion album and it will only be awesome for us fans and i think for other people who are fond of listening to instrumental music especially with high quality recording and i guess for those who are into sound engineering and mixing 'coz we can't deny the fact that Mego is a genius in re-arranging the songs for live performances.

[MillerThorsten]

you know, if celine's team would agree on this, it would be AMAZING, totally AMAZING for those people or fans who are fond of sound tripping like me. Imagine, if they record the songs suit for even just 5.1 channel audio surround, it would sound marvelous.

 

with due respect to "imgoingtobiteyou", based on my opinion, backing vocals ruins the music... maybe most of us or maybe only me is/are used of listening to celine' voice that when hearing the backing vocals, it sounds awkward or sometimes out of tune which I clearly understood that it was intentionally done to enhance celine's voice in a song but without celine's voice, i find it annoying.

 

well, it's just my opinion and my preference. i respect everyone's opinion and preference and i know for sure that there are also a lot of people out there prefers instrumentals with backing vocals.

[MillerThorsten]

oh well, since this wouldn't be realizable 'coz it wouldn't sell anyway... i hope this idea would come into someone's mind who is working in celine's management and have this realize by, maybe, just making a limited copies for collectors and/or it could be a great prize for any celine contests.

 

and besides if this will be released, i just realized that any amount of profit won't go to celine instead it'll go to mego's team and to those who made the music for legal and copyright reason.

[Marcc]

You can buy many instrumental versions of Celine's songs on www.karaoke-version.com! Even with or without backing vocals!

[Amethystj]

I would like to have a cd or dvd with those arrangements from Mego's hand

 

I also bought several instrumentals/karaokes from karaokeversion.com, but there are always songs that I want but aren't made (yet)

[MillerThorsten]

In fact, there are many instrumental of Celine that are on sale already ; they are either hidden in singles: for example, Je ne vous oublie pas has a 2 tracks songs 1 the regular version et 1 instrumental one. There are many examples of that but you have to search for them; You can find here many karaoke/instrumental songs:

 

Celine Dion Karaoke

 

http://www.musicme.com/#/Celine-Dion/album...4012403326.html

 

Ultimate Backing Tracks (includes some instrumental from Taking Chances album)

 

http://www.musicme.com/#/Soundmachine/albu...1585675914.html

 

Karaoke The Celine Dion Hits Volume 1

 

http://www.musicme.com/#/Karaoke-Planet/al...1585572534.html

 

Karaoke The Celine Dion Hits Volume 2:

 

http://www.musicme.com/#/Karaoke-Planet/al...1585572619.html

Et Je t'aime encore Single with instrumental:

 

http://www.musicme.com/#/page.php?q=celine dion&res=cd&pg=1

 

Tout l'or des hommes instrumental:

 

http://www.musicme.com/#/Celine-Dion/album...9767425114.html

 

Je ne vous oublie pas instrumental:

 

http://www.musicme.com/#/Celine-Dion/album...8767275727.html

 

Celine Dion D'Eux (full karaoke version)

 

http://musique.fnac.com/a707815/Celine-Dio...-d-eux-CD-album

 

 

yup, there are available instrumental versions online and those that are included on the single CDs but this is about re-recording the music or re-making the music using the arrangements of Celine's concert conductor Mego... it'll have a different music feeling and it'll give life to those songs that were not being performed on-stage anymore.

[maceta_biloxi]

This wouldn't sell at all.....sure, it's interesting to us, but idea-wise , it would receive even less backing than usual from her team, and the public wouldn't care enough.

 

I wouldn't buy it for 2 reason:

 

1. Enough with the Hits!

2. I like Celine's music because of her voice, so just the instrumentals will be boring for me.

 

In the other hand, I will definitely buy acapella versions of her songs

[brendanhirt]

This would come in handy particularly for me as I'm trying to replicate the piano parts and sound design to match the Live arrangements from the A New Day dvd. The only piano track that was left on the centre channel was My heart will go on.

[ryba]

Back in 2003, there was a professional (maybe even official) acapella version of IDAN that sounded awesome. The reverb on it was great.

 

Edit: just found it on youtube

Edited February 10, 2019 at 11:42 AM by ryba

[jpatdeleon09]

Back in 2003, there was a professional (maybe even official) acapella version of IDAN that sounded awesome. The reverb on it was great.

 

Edit: just found it on youtube https://youtu.be/FmSgkQuQoV0

 

I think that is the original effects that we hear in the original.. reverb with delay echoes

Edited February 10, 2019 at 11:59 AM by jpatdeleon09

[brendanhirt]

This would come in handy particularly for me as I'm trying to replicate the piano parts and sound design to match the Live arrangements from the A New Day dvd. The only piano track that was left on the centre channel was My heart will go on.

 

On this note, I want to get a second opinion from all other like minded Celine fans as well as Musicians here on this forum. This is an attempt at the Live Electric Piano sound that's played for the A New Day Las Vegas show for My Heart will go on.

It's still not perfect. This is a life long challenge to try and replicate the exact instruments and have also seeked help from other Sound programmers too.

 

Heres a short video of me playing the Live arrangement. I don't read music theory and only play by ear, self taught so forgive me, I transpose the Keybed to +3 for most of the song and then -5 for the Bridge at the end and play on the C Scale. For now i'm more interested in the sound design than the playing. Will eventually teach myself how to play it properly without the need to transpose.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVzvT9mWGDU&feature=youtu.be

 

I'm playing on a Korg Kronos which is the next Piano model up from what was used in Celine's A New Day run.

Had trouble aligning the audio with the video as, audio was recorded directly in to my macbook from the Keyboard, and video recorded on apple phone.

 

I want your thoughts ! - Does it sound close enough the piano sound used in the live shows ?

Edited April 16, 2019 at 04:23 PM by brendanhirt

[ordinary fan]

On this note, I want to get a second opinion from all other like minded Celine fans as well as Musicians here on this forum. This is an attempt at the Live Electric Piano sound that's played for the A New Day Las Vegas show for My Heart will go on.

It's still not perfect. This is a life long challenge to try and replicate the exact instruments and have also seeked help from other Sound programmers too.

 

Heres a short video of me playing the Live arrangement. I don't read music theory and only play by ear, self taught so forgive me, I transpose the Keybed to +3 for most of the song and then -5 for the Bridge at the end and play on the C Scale. For now i'm more interested in the sound design than the playing. Will eventually teach myself how to play it properly without the need to transpose.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVzvT9mWGDU&feature=youtu.be

 

I'm playing on a Korg Kronos which is the next Piano model up from what was used in Celine's A New Day run.

Had trouble aligning the audio with the video as, audio was recorded directly in to my macbook from the Keyboard, and video recorded on apple phone.

 

I want your thoughts ! - Does it sound close enough the piano sound used in the live shows ?

First of all, very good job!

I think while hearing it, it sounds very close to the original, which was used in A new day...well done

[brendanhirt]

Please find a new and updated video of my playing of the A New Day Las Vegas Piano part to My Heart Will go on.

https://youtu.be/j2rxqBaW8NI